English in the Digital Age: Making English Digital

Abstract

Despite the emphasis in the press and elsewhere on the print based nature of English curriculum, opportunities to develop digital English, with attention to web-based and multimodal forms of text, literacy, location, and activity, are present the National (Australian) Curriculum, alongside more traditional forms. This paper examines the place of digital and multimodal texts and literacies with the draft paper for the Australian English curriculum, and the possibilities offered by National Curriculum, for exploring and imagining an English for the Digital Age